Re: If you do Science, use the Scientific Method!

[Tom Mohaupt <tom.mohaupt@wright.edu>]

Let's look at your example a little more realistically. Your physician 

says take an asprin. The consensus of LNT physicians says that taking 

1000 asprins is dangerous to your health; therefore, the effect of one 

asprin could be dangerous. Your experience is that one asprin has always 

worked on the ailment for which you sought the physician. I would take 

the asprin as the physician prescribed.

Tom



William V Lipton wrote:



> What you seem to be saying is that if one physician says that a pill 

> will benefit me, while the consensus of physicians says that this pill 

> will kill me, I should take the pill.  Not me, thank-you.

>

> The opinions expressed are strictly mine.

> It's not about dose, it's about trust.

> Curies forever.

>

> Bill Lipton

> liptonw@dteenergy.com

>

> BLHamrick@AOL.COM wrote:

>

>>  In a message dated 9/23/2003 9:41:23 AM Pacific Standard Time, 

>> michael.g.stabin@vanderbilt.edu writes:

>>

>>     I think it is good policy to be prudent until we have the clear

>>     evidence or a unified and well confirmed model that eliminates

>>     this reasonable doubt.

>>

>> And, I think if the consensus is that we do not know the effects in 

>> the low dose or low-dose rate region, and those effects could include 

>> benefits, then it is not accurate to say that assuming harm is 

>> prudent. Barbara

>



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